Cameroon english

1. Cameroon english

CAMEROON ENGLISH

2.

Cameroon English is
an English
dialect spoken
predominantly
in Cameroon, mostly
learned as a second
language. It shares
some similarities with
English varieties in
neighbouring West
Africa, as Cameroon lies
at the west of Central
Africa. It is primarily
spoken in
the Northwest and South
west regions of
Cameroon.
It is
a postcolonial variety of
English, long in use in
the territory (Southern

3. Phonological features

PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES
The phonemes /ɔː/, /ʌ/ and /ɒ/ tend
to merge to /ɔː/, making "cot", "caught" and
"cut" homophones.[1] Similarly, "lock" and "luck"
are pronounced alike. And "white-collar worker"
sometimes becomes "white-colour worker" in
Cameroon.

4. Phonology

PHONOLOGY
Like most West African languages, Kamtok has
seven vowels, with two mid vowels: open and
closed. Schneider spells the mid vowels as
closed ey and ow vs. open e and o but Todd
spells them as closed e and o vs.
open eh and oh.

5. Phonology

PHONOLOGY
The palatal approximate /j/ is written y, the
palatal affricates /t͡ʃ/ and /d͡ʒ/ are
written ch and j, and the palatal and velar
nasals /ɲ/ and /ŋ/ are written ny and ng. Some
of these consonants, such as /r/ and /l/, are
not distinguished by speakers who lack such
distinctions in their local substrate languages.

6. Pronoun system

PRONOUN SYSTEM
The basic pronoun system of Kamtok distinguishes
three persons and two numbers. In most cases, the
shape of the pronoun does not change to show
grammatical function. Two exceptions involve the first
person singular, where a serves as a
subject clitic on verbs, as in mi, a mos go 'I must go',
and ma is the possessive pronoun, as in ma beli 'my
stomach'. The other major exception is -am in place
of i or dem as an object suffix on verbs, except when the
referent is human, as in a go was-am 'I'll wash
it'. Acrolectal speakers, however, are more likely to
use dei for dem in subject position and ohs for wi in
object position

7. Pronoun system

PRONOUN SYSTEM
Person
Singular
Plural
1st
mi, a, ma
wi
2nd
yu
(w)una
3rd
i, -am
dem, -am

8. Verbs

VERBS
Verbs are not inflected to show grammatical
tense, aspect, modality, or negation. Instead,
these notions are conveyed by a small set of
preverbal auxiliaries.
no 'not'
neba neva 'never'
bin bi past tense
go future tense

9. verbs

VERBS
Examples:
Tiri pipo go di kam. Tiri pipo go di kam. 'Three
people will be coming.'
Ma masa bin tutu wok. 'My boss worked very
hard.'
Dem neva cam? 'They haven't come yet?'
Yu no fit bi ma klak. 'You cannot be my clerk.'

10. Plural markers

PLURAL MARKERS
In pidgin unlike in English, 'S' is not used at the
end of nouns to mark their plural state.
Instead, this is what is used: 'dem' or 'ndem‘
e.g.: The boy dem di cam - The boys are coming.

11. Expressions

EXPRESSIONS
Characteristic turns of phrase in the country or
local coinages:
"detailly" = in detail
"to see with me" = to agree with me; to see my
point of view
"installmentally" = by installments
"of recent" = recently; lately

12. See more

SEE MORE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=693SzBNp
RPs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aCxJDOROY&list=PL7aY7m8NGmIYXM_op8Do4NevV
dqetZgvK&index=67 (37-46 сек)